Jenniffer González-Colón: “That means a lot for the people of Puerto Rico knowing that Members of Congress... are participating in this hearing.”

Despite our compact agreement, the Freely Associated States are independent nations, that if we in the United States fail to remain engaged and do not renew our economic agreement with them, there will be nothing in the way to stop…

I have introduced legislation that will add these crops as priority research areas for the Department of Agriculture.

We are grateful to Chairman Westerman for stewardship of COFA renewal so far.

I will be supporting the continued funding of this program as well as of others in the budget request.